SunshineWeek 2011 Webcast and Local Panel: The Road Forward on Open Government
EFF Activist Rainey Reitman joins Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent for CNET, and James Jacobs, Government Documents Librarian at Stanford and one of the founders of the Free Government Information blog discussing WikiLeaks and its relationship to Open Government.
Registration is $20 for SLA and NOCALL members; $25 for...
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain
Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear an important case about whether Congress has the power to "restore" copyright protection to works that already exist in the public domain. To be clear, for more than 200 years the law has been settled – once a work was in the public...
China Deputizes Smart Phones to Spy on Beijing Residents’ Real-Time Location
The Chinese government has announced plans to track the real-time location of all cell phones in the city of Beijing, purportedly to ease traffic problems that have plagued the city. Human rights activists have expressed concerns that this plan may well be the newest attempt by the Chinese...
Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest
The NCUC - ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency- is organizing a policy conference NCUC@ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest on Friday March 11, 2011 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco.
The meeting will raise awareness about online human rights issues...
EFF Google Summer of Code 2011 Projects
EFF is offering a number of Summer of Code projects for 2011. These include:
HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension that automatically switches requests from HTTP websites to HTTPS versions. It uses rulesets to describe these transformations, which are sometimes quite complicated.
HOWTO: Using the SSL Observatory in the Cloud
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SXSW: South by Southwest Music + Film Interactive
March 11-20, 2011
Four of EFF's finest are presenters on three different panels at this year's SXSW Interactive!
"The Epic Fail of BitTorrent Indie Film Lawsuits"
EFF Activist Eva Galperin and EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels join the discussion about the U.S. Copyright Group's targeting of tens of...
CanSecWest Vancouver 2011
March 9-11, 2011
Marcia Hofmann, EFF Senior Staff Attorney joins the line-up at this year's CanSecWest speaking on "The Law of Web Application Hacking". Marcia will identify and discuss sticky legal problems raised by researching the security of web applications as well as the common legal issues involved in accessing...
Crossing Boundaries: Conference on International News, Technology and Audiences
March 17-18, 2011
Marcia Hofmann, EFF Senior Staff Attorney, will be speaking at this event on Saturday, March 18. Marcia joins a panel discussing "Citizen vs. Government". Other luminaries on this panel include Xiao Qiang, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, and Craig Newmark, Founder of craigslist.
When:...
Could 2011 Be The Year? A Look at the 2011 Patent Reform Act
It's starting to look like 2011 could be the year that Congress finally passes patent reform legislation. This week, the full Senate begins debate on the Patent Reform Act of 2011, a bill that is receiving a lot of press, mostly for its funding and first-to-file...
